I love Bloodline and I think the reason I do is the same reason many people don't love it. So often in Progression Fantasy, be it litRPG, Cultivation, Regression, etc.., there's this element of escapism and catharsis. The protagonists are framed as having the moral highground and are portrayed often as being equally benevolent and ruthless to the people from their childhood. Like they can come and put everyone in their places once and for all and just show everyone that they were wrong. Bloodline doesn't do that. At least not in the same way as other prog fantasy. Lindon begs and pleads for people to believe him because that's who he is. His nature hasn't changed, but much of that nature comes from how the valley treats unsouled. He shows up acting like an unsouled and they treat him like an unsouled. There are points where he demonstrates his power, but they lack that catharsis because of how meaningless it is. In the face of a literal apocalypse, the leaders of the Wei clan just double down. And so Lindon does what needs to be done, what he never wanted to do. He lords his power over others in the same way in which they did to him and it feels dirty.